A ''sensation" is the word used by patrons to describe the sandwiches and steaks served from the new automatic grill machine recently installed at the popular Brown Bear tea-room on the Saranac Lake-Lake Placid road. This is the only grill of its kind in this section of the Adirondacks, according to M. A. Sweeney, proprietor. Three-minute service on steak and sandwich orders is now the rule at the Brown Bear, it is said. The new machine retains, all the meat juices, and everything cooked on it is done to the proverbial turn. The Brown Bear is proving one of the most popular resorts for dining and dancing with members of the summer colony.

Plattsburgh Press Republican, October 6, 1944

FORMER FRANKLIN COUNTY MEN KILLED

Lake Placid News, April 28, 1933A former Malone resident and a former Saranac Lake man have been listed as having been killed in action and another Franklin county resident is listed as missing in this week's War Department releases. Private Jack Porter was killed in France last month. He was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Porter, former operators of the Brown Bear restaurant and the Overlook hotel at Ray Brook. They now reside in Jacksonville, Fla. Prior to entering the service Porter was employed by the Western Union Telegraph Co. at Saranac Lake.